I can't find the video, but a very powerful example of the folly in this way of thinking is in the mind of a horse. When the car came out, horses could have loo

I can't find the video, but a very powerful example of the folly in this way of thinking is in the mind of a horse. When the car came out, horses could have looked around and said "I know they're taking our jobs today, but for the past 10k years, every time one of our jobs got replaced, we found another one." Yet, despite such a lengthy history of adaptive value, after cars became prevalent, horses were never useful an laborers ever again. It's not far fetched to think that humans are just a better horse, able to stave off economic obsolescence slightly longer than they did.